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• Daifūryū Tanomura Chikuden (Minʼyūsha, 1929), by Aikichi Kizaki and Chikuden Tanomura (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gendai Nihon shishū ; Gendai Nihon kanshishū (Kaizōsha, 1929), by Tōson Shimazaki (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kyōka jinmei jisho (Bunkōdō :, 1928), by Kaian Kanō (page images at HathiTrust)

• One hundred poems by a hundred poets (Katano Tōshirō, 1895), by Tōshirō Katano (page images at HathiTrust)

• Teika: The Life and Works of a Medieval Japanese Poet (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2025), by Paul S. Atkins (JSTOR ebook)

• Rengetsu-ni zenshū (Rengetsu-ni Zenshū Hanpukai, 1927), by Rengetsu and Sodō Murakami (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rengetsu-ni zenshū : zen (Rengetsu-ni Zenshū Hanpukai, 1927), by Rengetsu and Sodō Murakami (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Uin shika shōden (s.n., 1913), by Taichi Fukazawa (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hokuetsu shiwa (Meguro Jinshichi ;, 1918), by Gohō Sakaguchi (page images at HathiTrust)

• Takuboku o meguru hitobito (Kaizōsha, 1929), by Koyō Yoshida (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Haikai meika retsuden (1893), by Hitoshi Momiyama (page images at HathiTrust)
• Banka jinmeiroku (1813), by Chōsai Shime and Seppō Nagai (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nihon shin shishi (Tachikawa Bunmeidō, 1924), by Kyūzō Fukui (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bashō-ō seitō haikei ichiran (Renjisha, 1926), by Renjisha (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hyakunin isshu hitoyogatari (Yūhōdō, 1918), by Masayoshi Ozaki and Tetsuzō Tsukamoto (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shōmon jittetsushū (Hakubunkan, 1898), by 19th cent Shinsetsuan Ryūgai and Rōsodō Eiki (page images at HathiTrust)

• Haikai shokanshū (Yamamotoya, 1914), by Tegami Zasshisha (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rengetsu-ni zenshū (Rengetsu-ni Zenshū Hanpukai, 1927), by Rengetsu and Sodō Murakami (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tenmei haijinron (Kōransha, 1929), by Seinosuke Nishitani (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rengetsu-ni zenshū : zen (Rengetsu-ni Zenshū Hanpukai, 1927), by Rengetsu and Sodō Murakami (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Tenmei haijinron (Kōransha, 1929), by Seinosuke Nishitani (page images at HathiTrust)

• Haikai kikō zenshū (Hakubunkan, 1901), by Hanjin Satō (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tosa nikki (Koten Kenkyūsha, 1918), by Tsurayuki Ki, Rohan Kōda, and Masanao Sekine (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chokusen sakusha burui : kōtei zōho gojūonbiki (Rikugōkan, 1902), by Kokugakuin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Theatrum Poetarum: or, A Compleat Collection of the Poets, Especially the Most Eminent, of All Ages (2 volumes in 1; London: Printed for C. Smith, 1675), by Edward Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Femmes inspiratrices et poètes annonciateurs (Perrin, 1919), by Edouard Schuré (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorie intorno ai poeti laureati d'ogni tempo e d'ogni nazione (P. Manzoni, 1839), by Vincenzo Lancetti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Los últimos dias del poeta colombiano Adolfo Valdes (Impr. del Mercurio de Tornero y Letelier, 1874), by Eusebio Tafur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lights of two centuries : illustrated with fifty portraits (A. S. Barnes, 1887), by Edward Everett Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire des portraits historiques, anecdotes, et traits remarquables des hommes illustres (A Paris : Chez Lacombe, Libraire, Quai de Conty, M. DCC. LXVIII. [1768], 1768), by Honoré Lacombe de Prézel, Jacques Lacombe, and Princeton University. Library. Douglas Bauer Pindar Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of obscure poets, with specimens of their writings. (Cochrane, 1833) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Życiorysy niektórych poetów i uczonych. (K. Pollak, 1856), by Kazimierz Brodziński (page images at HathiTrust)
• Days with the lyric poets Keats, Longfellow, Burns. (Musson, 1919), by May Byron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Loves of the poets. (James R. Osgood and Co., 1879), by Mrs. Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stutt æfiminning síra Pjeturs Pjeturssonar, fyrrum prófasts í Hegranessþingi. (Prentuð í Ísafoldar Prentsmiðju, 1881), by Jón Konráđsson, Bishop Pétur Pétursson, and Pétur Pétursson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il pittore originale : poemetto didascalico del pittore e poeta Innocenzio Ansaldi di Pescia (Francesco Daddi, 1816), by Domenico Moreni (page images at HathiTrust)

• George C. Stebbins: reminiscences and gospel hymn stories ([AMS Press], 1971), by George C. Stebbins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hymns that are immortal : with some account of their authorship, origin, history and influence (Chicago : S.K.J. Chesbro, Agent, 1907., 1907), by Wilson T. Hogue and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hymns of the present century. From the German. (Religious Tract Society, 1885), by John Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of eighty years (J.H. Earle, 1906), by Fanny Crosby and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hymn-writers and their hymns (London : S.W. Partridge ; New York : Anson D.F. Randolph, 1867., 1867), by S. W. Christophers and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unsere Kirchenliederdichter, Lebensund Charakterbilder : Mit einer Einführung (G. Schloessaman, 1905), by Wilhelm Nelle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music of the church, in four parts : containing a general history of misic; including an account of Hebrew music, an investigation into the fitness of instruments, harmony, fuguing, anthems, chants, choirs, etc., in divine worship; and notices, biographical and critical, of the most popular hymnic authors. (London : Whittaker & Co. [etc.], 1841., 1841), by Thomas Hirst and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hymns of the Holy Eastern Church (Paisley : Alexander Gardner, 1902., 1902), by John Brownlie and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of William Cowper: his life, letters, and poems. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence. (R. Carter & brothers, 1851), by William Cowper, J. W. Cunningham, T. S. Grimshawe, and William Hayley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bells at evening and other verses (New York : Biglow & Main, 1898., 1898), by Fanny Crosby and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lyric studies: a hymnal guide, containing biographic sketches of the authors, and notes, critical, historical, and illustrative, on their psalms and hymns. (J. Toulson [etc.], 1891), by I. Dorricott and Thomas Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paul Gerhardt : gesammelte Aufsätze (A. Deichert, 1906), by Julius Knipfer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hymns of the Greek Church (Edinburgh : Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, 1900., 1900), by John Brownlie and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Singers and songs of the church : being the biographical sketches of the hymn-writers in all the principal collections : with notes on their psalms and hymns... (London : Longmans, Green & Co., 1869., 1869), by Josiah Miller and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Popular hymns : their authors and teaching. ([publisher not identified], 1863), by Joseph Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated history of hymns and their authors (Philadelphia : Ziegler, 1876., 1876), by Edwin McKean Long and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Seven great hymns of the mediaeval church. (New York : Anson D.F. Randolph, [1877?], 1877), by Charles C. Nott and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Voice of Christian life in song : or, hymns and hymn-writers of many lands and ages. (New York : Robert Carter & Brothers, 1864., 1864), by Elizabeth Rundle Charles and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christian hymns and hymn writers : a course of lectures (Cambridge : Deighton, Bell and Co., 1886., 1886), by John Eustace Prescott and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hymn-writers and their hymns (London : S.W. Partridge, 1866., 1866), by S. W. Christophers and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hymns and hymn writers of the church : an annotated edition of the Methodist hymnal (New York : Eaton & Mains, [1911], 1911), by Methodist Episcopal Church, Charles S. Nutter, Wilbur F. Tillett, Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary), and Methodist Episcopal Church, South (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hymn-writers and their hymns. (New York : [publisher not identified], 1881., 1881), by S. W. Christophers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hymns (New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., 1888., 1888), by Frederick William Faber and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the lives, characters and writings of those two eminently pious and useful ministers of Jesus Christ, Dr. Isaac Watts and Dr. Philip Doddridge (Boston : Printed by Peter Edes for David West, 1793., 1793), by Jeremy Belknap, Andrew Kippis, and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evenings with the sacred poets : a series of quiet talks about the singers and their songs (New York : [publisher not identified], [1885], 1885), by Frederick Saunders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annotations of the hymnal : consisting of notes, biographical sketches of authors, originals and references (Hartford : The Church Press, 1872., 1872), by Charles L. Hutchins and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hymns (New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., 1880., 1880), by Frederick William Faber and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• English hymns : their authors and history. (New York : Funk, [1886], 1886), by Samuel Willoughby Duffield and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evenings with the sacred poets : a series of quiet talks about the singers and their songs (New York : Anson D.F. Randolph and Co., 1870., 1870), by Frederick Saunders and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Seven great hymns of the Mediaeval church (New York : Edwin S. Gorham, 1902., 1902), by Charles C. Nott and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Te deum laudamus : Christian life in song ; the song and the singers (London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ; New York : E. & J.B. Young, 1897., 1897), by Elizabeth Rundle Charles and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hymns of the early church : being translations from the poetry of the Latin church, arranged in the order of the Christian year with hymns for Sundays and week-days (London : James Nisbet & Co., 1896., 1896), by John Brownlie, Thomas F. Torrance Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary), and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs amid the shadows (London : Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., [1872], 1872), by Hetty Bowman and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lyric studies : a hymnal guide, containing biographic sketches of the authors, and notes, critical, historical, and illustrative, on their psalms and hymns. (London : J. Toulson and T. Danks, [1887], 1887), by I. Dorricott, T. Collins, and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hymns and their authors : how some of our best known hymns came to be written (A. Wood, 1800), by W. Jones and W. P. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the principal hymn-writers and compilers of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. (London : John Gadsby, 1870., 1870), by John Gadsby and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Olney hymns : in three books (Glasgow : Printed for William Collins [etc.], 1829., 1829), by John Newton, James Montgomery, William Cowper, and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Singers and songs of the liberal faith : being selections of hymns and other sacred poems of the liberal church in America, with biographical sketches of the writers, and with historical and illustrative notes (Boston : Roberts Brothers, 1875., 1875), by Alfred P. Putnam and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated history of hymns and their authors : facts and incidents of the origin, authors, sentiments and singing of hymns, which, with a synopsis, embrace interesting items relating to over eight hundred hymnwriters (Philadelphia : J.F. Jaggers, [1875], 1875), by Edwin McKean Long (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the poems of Charlotte Elliott, author of "Just as I am" : with a memoir by her sister, E.B. (Religious Tract Society, 1800), by Charlotte Elliott and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hymnal : amore Dei (Boston : George H. Ellis, 1897., 1897), by Velma Curtis Williams and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hymnal : amore Dei (Boston : George H. Ellis, 1890., 1890), by Velma Curtis Williams and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hymn of Hildebert and other mediaeval hymns : with translations (New York : Anson D.F. Randolph & Co., 1868., 1868), by Archbishop of Tours Hildebert, Erastus C. Benedict, and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Methodist hymn-book, illustrated with biography, history, incident, and anecdote (London : Charles H. Kelly, 1894., 1894), by George J. Stevenson and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maltbie Davenport Babcock, a reminiscent sketch and memorial (New York ; Chicago [etc.] : Fleming H. Revell Company, [1905], 1905), by Charles E. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of eighty years : the story of her life, told by herself, ancestry, childhood, womanhood, friendships, incidents and history of her songs and hymns (Boston : James H. Earle, [1906], 1906), by Fanny Crosby and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• My life and the story of the gospel hymns and of sacred songs and solos. (Philadelphia : P. W. Ziegler Co., 1907., 1907), by Ira David Sankey and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joachim Neander's Leben und Lieder (Elberfeld : Badeker'sche, 1860., 1860), by Reinholdus Vormbaum, Joachim Neander, and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• English hymns, their authors and history. (New York : Funk, 1894., 1894), by Samuel Willoughby Duffield and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Luther as a hymnist (Philadelphia : Lutheran Book Store, 1875., 1875), by Bernhard Pick and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Best gospel songs and their composers (Dalton, Ga. : A.J. Showalter Co., 1904., 1904), by A. J. Showalter and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geistliche Andachten in hundert und zwanzig Liedern : nach der ersten durch Johann Georg Ebeling besorgten Ausgabe mit Anmerkungen, einer geschichtlichen Einleitung und Urkunden (Berlin : Verlag der Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, 1852., 1852), by Paul Gerhardt and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hymns and verses on sacred subjects (London : Daniel Sedgwick, 1862., 1862), by John Ryland, Samuel Crossman, Clare Taylor, and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The University hymn book for use in the chapel of Harvard University. (Cambridge : Published by the University, 1896., 1896), by Harvard University and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Voice of Christian life in song : or, hymns and hymn-writers of many lands and ages. (London : James Nisbet and Co., 1865., 1865), by Elizabeth Rundle Charles and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some famous hymns and their authors. ([Place of publication not identified] : The Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1904., 1904), by Laura Grover Smith and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The University hymn book for use in the chapel of Harvard University. (Cambridge : Published by the University, 1895., 1895), by Harvard University and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Evangelical hymnal : with tunes (New York : A. S. Barnes & Co., 1880., 1880), by Charles Cuthbert Hall, Sigismund Lasar, and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hymn of Hildebert and other mediaeval hymns : with translations (New York : [publisher not identified], 1867., 1867), by Archbishop of Tours Hildebert, Erastus C. Benedict, and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Seven great hymns of the mediaeval church. (New York : Anson D.F. Randolph, 1865., 1865), by Charles C. Nott and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johann Heermanns geistliche Lieder (Stuttgart : S. G. Liefsching, 1856., 1856), by Johann Heermann, Philipp Wackernagel, and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Down melody lane : an autobiography (Beacon Hill Press, 1953), by Haldor Lillenas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studies of familiar hymns : first series (Philadelphia : Westminster Press, 1926., 1926), by Louis F. Benson (page images at HathiTrust)

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